Praise to the Living God
"Praise to the Living God" is an American Judeo-Christian hymn written in 1884 by Max Landsberg and Newton Mann. It was revised in 1910 by William C. Gannett.
History
Landsberg was a Jewish rabbi of German origin in
"Praise to The Living God" and its lyrics have often been combined with other hymns to create hybrids.[1] In the 1930s, for example, "The God of Abraham Praise" was sung to a melody called "Leoni" which was composed by Myer Lyon and adopted by Thomas Olivers as the music for the hymn.[3] In 1933, the editors of The Presbyterian Hymnal decided to replace "The God of Abraham Praise" with "Praise to The Living God" in the hymnal. In order to make the new hymn familiar to the congregation, they set it to the tune of the old hymn and substituted the first line of the old with the first line of the new.[2] Consequently, several American hymnals until the 1980s misattributed "The God of Abraham Praise" to Landsberg and Mann instead of crediting Olivers.[4]
References
- ^ ISBN 1579993540.
- ^ ISBN 0898691435.
- ^ "The God of Abraham Praise". Hymnary.org. Retrieved 2015-05-11.
- ISBN 1630876305.